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Downloading multiple counties worth of shapefiles from ESRI's Census 2000 site

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2013-11-15 09:02:06 in Tech
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

So, for those of you who don't know, if you know your way around GIS software (that's basically map-making and map-analyzing software), there's lots of free data for it floating around the web.  One such place is a thing set up by ESRI, the company that makes the most famous GIS software in use currently (that being ArcGIS).  You can go to this site -- http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000-tigerline -- and download all sorts of data from the 2000 U.S. Census.


So I knew that that the Census has county-level data, including county borders.  Which I want for an assignment.


> download county-level data for all counties in the state commonwealth* of Virginia


> get .zip file


I wonder what this contains.


I think it should contain the shapefiles for all the counties.


> open .zip file


> contains one .zip file for each county, inside the original .zip file


 


 


* Virginia technically calls itself a "Commonwealth".  However, it is still a state for the purpose of being one of the 50 U.S. states.  But it's still something that people have fun nitpicking about.

Comments

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    So, what can you do with it?

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Well, I was going to make a map showing how the counties line up to a lat-long grid at every quarter degree, because I wanted something more than just the bare outline of the state plus a grid.  Then again, I could have gotten away with a bare outline of the state.  But I'm actually not sure where to find a bare state outline, so I went with the next best already-known idea.

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